How did you attract/address your audience?

When planning, filming and editing our thriller we questionnaire results so we were referred to our creating a piece that our audience would enjoy best. For example when choosing our location we looked back at our results, as you can see from the pie chart that our audience would like to see abandoned houses or towns. We think we found a perfect location that helped represent this and really supported our narrative.  We also were influenced by our feedback to create certain characters, once again as you can see in this pie chart that most of the people we asked were interested in vulnerable people mainly but also detectives, villains or murderers. This helped us decide our main characters that would be introduced at the beginning, such as the vulnerable girl and the two boys which would be our villains.  When we were planning and once we began to edit our piece we struggled with what music we should use, so once again we looked back at our questionnaire so we could address our audience’s feedback. As you can see the pie chart clearly shows slow paced music is most popular so we were then able to work from there to find music to fit without piece, also slow paced music would work well with a psychological thriller.

We didn’t just ask our typical audience members via a questionnaire, we also asked a few people just simply what they expect from a thriller.

As you can see these are the results from some of the questions I asked. The results show that psychological thrillers are most popular; this also fits in with the music as most people expect to hear slow paced music which would flow with a psychological thriller. The last pie chart shows that the audience expect to be scared when watching a thriller.

We didn’t just ask our typical audience members via a questionnaire, we also asked a few people just simply what they expect from a thriller.

 What made our thriller appeal to our audience was the slow pace throughout it made the piece more tense. I also think that as there were many location shots shown this almost made the piece creepy and more suspense.

To find out what our audiences responses were, we posted our opening on the social networking site, facebook and this was some of the feedback we got back.

Leigh Sharples – “I like it, well done. The mood of it is good and makes you wanna find out what happened. Don't get too carried away with different transitions though, simple is best. Also, one of the first things I learned was to cut to the beat of the music. For instance when you see the body and cut to the close-up of you, if you cut it half a second earlier on that last high pitched beat, your reaction may be more effective (it may not though, I'm no expert). Its excellent though, keep it up!”

Lewis Simmonds – “Very good start to a thrilling story line the shots taken were very precise and very creative in terms of the angles and the projection on story itself, also I think the location and the scenery were appropriate. the music was well chosen for the plot of the story however I have to agree with Leigh with the beats of the music being just that slightly more precise to what is going on in the scene for more dramatic effect”

Kieran Hill – “Looks cool, tension is nicely kept and didn’t stray from the story, well done”

Ryan Doyle – “As already stated, I thought this was very good. Seamless between shots, good build up, good dramatic effects, was pretty creative too.”

Another way we got feedback from audience members was video interviews.